The Tourist Offer of Walking Routes in Trás-Os-Montes and Alto Douro (TMAD): Regional Development Mechanisms?
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Walking is one of the most democratic human activities and does not require much equipment or investment. Once it is a necessity anchored in human bipedism, it has become today a human activity of pleasure, of class ostentation and of social status. In recent decades there has been a profound increase in the supply and demand of pedestrian routes for places and visitors, who walk for multiple reasons from sporting to cultural, tourist, religious and spiritual ones.
In recent years, the local authorities of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro region (TMAD) have been investing in the implementation of pedestrian routes in their territories which are based on two central axes: they allow the tourist dynamization of the territory as well as constitute a development mechanism at local and regional level through the creation, interpretation and resignification of traditional paths as pedestrian routes. Is this the territorial vocation of TMAD? In our text we want to evaluate this vocation.
In the view of the scarce studies on the pedestrian routes and itineraries existing in this region, this article aims to present an inventory of the existing pedestrian routes in Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, through their identification as well as their characterisation. In addition, we intend to interpret the meanings of the creation and expansion of these pedestrian routes and outline some of their uses and functions.
Through the application of a documental methodology and field research, we identify the pedestrian routes divulged in the local government websites, thus we intend to understand their evolution and make an interpretative analysis of these routes and the associated tourist guides.
The results obtained show that there are a total of 163 pedestrian routes in TMAD, divided into Small Route (PR) and Large Route (GR), meeting contemporary discourses and measures related to the environment, ecology and sustainability.
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